ran against democrats for closing things down and locking things down. but newsom has been able to argue it's the republican position that threatens to close down schools or businesses because by undoing vaccine or mask mandates, you would allow the virus to get to that point. he's leading 2 to 1. two-thirds of voters who are vaccinated in california says they are opposing the recall, including about one-fifth of vaccinated republicans. you see terry mcauliffe making arguments across this like the country. in virginia, he's up 20 points among residents who are vaccinated. republicans right now are kind of boxing themselves into this corner of standing up for the, quote, rights and, quote, choices of the unvaccinated minority. certainly i think president biden has drawn those lines in a way that is going to frame the debate in exactly the kind of way we're seeing play out in california. so far very effectively for the democrats. >> ron brownstein, pleasure as always. thank you, sir. we'll be right back. >> thanks, don. essed,